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This model includes target motion, appearance, and disappearance from the search area. Using this target model, we introduce a new formulation of the mobile target tracking problem based on the mathematical concept of random finite sets. This formulation allows for tracking an unknown and dynamic number of mobile targets with a team of robots. We show how to employ the probability hypothesis density filter to simultaneously estimate the number of targets and their positions. Next, we present a greedy algorithm for assigning trajectories to the robots to allow them to actively track the targets. We prove that the greedy algorithm is a two-approximation for maximizing submodular tracking objective functions. We examine two such functions: the mutual information between the estimated target positions and future measurements from the robots and a new objective that maximizes the expected number of targets detected by the robot team. 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